Nick Timiraos

Reporter, The Wall Street Journal.

Nick Timiraos is a national economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Washington, D.C. He has covered the housing bust and the government's response to the mortgage crisis, including the bailout of finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In 2008, he contributed to the Journal's coverage of the presidential election. He joined the Journal in 2006 and graduated from Georgetown University, where he studied government and American studies. Contact Nick at nick.timiraos@wsj.com or follow him on Twitter @NickTimiraos.

Articles by Nick Timiraos

Economists at Wells Fargo explored in a research note whether the recent collapse in oil prices might, like the collapse in technology stocks 15 years ago, prove a harbinger of a downturn in the U.S. economy later this year.

Senate Republicans unveiled a 2016 budget blueprint that will match the House GOP’s ambition to eliminate the annual federal deficit over a decade, but provided fewer details on how safety-net programs would be changed to provide the savings.

House Republicans, looking for ways to increase military spending in their fiscal year 2016 budget without busting spending caps enacted four years ago, are expected to boost supplemental war funding in their budget to be released Tuesday, GOP lawmakers said.

Republican leaders are expected to unveil House and Senate budgets next week that will hew to spending curbs enacted four years ago, even though many GOP lawmakers believe the limits are harming the nation’s military readiness.

The U.S. budget deficit will rise slightly this year but fall in the coming two years relative to prior projections amid stronger economic growth and slower increases in spending on private health insurance, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday.

When it comes to curbing corporate tax breaks, why wait? That's the message Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, delivered in a letter to the White House Friday. He called on the administration to curb six specific tax breaks through executive action that could raise $100 billion over 10 years.